The Validating Process

Abstract

The strong adaptive approach endorses as salutary and healing only those interventions that obtain encoded unconscious validation. While conscious minds vary greatly in respect to the interventions that they accept or confirm directly and manifestly, the deep unconscious mind shows an enormous degree of consistency in this regard. This, too, is evidence for the diversity of conscious-system operations and the universal attributes of deep unconscious processing. Thus, narrative responses to the great variety of consciously fashioned interventions of therapists tend to uniformly encode validating imagery for trigger-decoded efforts, be they interpretive or frame-securing, and non-validating imagery for almost everything else that a therapist says or does that is not in the service of securing the frame or promoting narrative expression.